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Because the boss says so

47%

Because some one thought it

was a good idea

37%

Because its cool

11%

Because it helps our mission

5%

Requests

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

TAC

Manuscript

One Source

HAL

Positive Messages No Messages Negative Messages

Percent of impressions containing messages by product

$0.00 $0.50 $1.00 $1.50 $2.00 $2.50

TAC

Manuscript

One Source

HAL

Cost per message communicated Tactics:✓Party✓Press Event✓Press Tour with trade & business media ✓Release distribution

Sales: Sales: Announce our latest contract

win!

Mktg:Announce our latest

strategic alliance

CEO:I hate talking to the

media

The “Spark” – top tier media coverage

Quality media coverage conveys messages

Influencers generate understanding/awareness

Communications increases engagement

Engagement increases revenue and revenue advances goals

• Customer retention rate• Increase in revenue• Increase in profitability • Increase in visitors to the

website• Cost to close a sale

• Increase in the awareness of your brands

• Volume/number of brand mentions

• Increase in preference for our brand

• Share of coverage focusing on your brands

• Share of favorable product reviews

Purchase

Desirable Photo

Recommendation

Brand Benefit

Intent to visit

Desirable Photo

Dispels a Myth

Signature Experience

Call to action or recommendation

Ratings

Recommendations

Key message

Signature Program Mention

Social Engagement

Grow the marketable

universe (sales leads)

3rd Party Recommendation

Key message

Spokesperson quote

Desirable positioning

Business Goals Communications Goal Lower employee turnover and increase employee retention

Acme is perceived as the employer of choice in the industryEmployees move from “not happy” to brand ambassador

Growing market share Improve Acme’s reputationEnhancing Acme’s reputation by getting customers and employees to advocate on Acme’s behalf

Risk and cost avoidance Mitigate or avoid image crises. We receive increased positive comments from customers and public Increase recognition for Acme’s impact on Romanian society All crises are handled with minimum publicity

Increase sales of Acme’s private-label products

Increased awareness of and preference for Acme’s private-label products

We need a thought

leadership program !

We need to focus on key influencers!

We need better media

coverage!

We need to increase

engagement!

Our content needs to

be better!

Perfect 10 Score Worst nightmare Score

Contains a USP or key message 1.5 Contains no key message 0Contains a reference to good Acme experience

1.5 Mentions a negative Acme experience (i.e. food poisoning or bugs in the food)

-1.5

Tells a Acme story .5 Contains a negative quote from an employee (i.e. bashing Acme)

-.5

Contains a desirable visual 2 Contains an undesirable visual -2.5

Mentions Acme in a positive headline 2 Mentions Acme in a negative headline -2Leaves a reader more likely to shop or work for Acme

.5 Mentions opposition to Acme expansions -.5

Mentions a signature product 1.5 References corruption or bad corporate behavior -1

Contains a link to a Acme owned social or digital property

.5 Discusses Acme’s CSR efforts as “Greenwashing” -.5

Mentions bad quality of products especially relative to Western Europe

-1

Mentions a negative price differential -.5Total 10 -10

Perfect 10 Score Worst nightmare ScoreStory is accurate 1 Story is inaccurate -2

Story dispels a myth about the Bank (The Bank is independent.)

.5Perpetuates a myth (i.e. The Bank is part of the Washington bureaucracy.)

-1.5

Contains a quote from a Bank economist or expert or attribution for bank online content or research

2.5 Contains no quote and/or no attribution for bank research or online content

-1

Positive (leaves an analyst more likely to support the bank or the bank’s positions) 1

Negative (leaves an analyst less likely to support the bank or the bank’s positions.)

-2

Contains one or more of the bank’s key messages

3Contains a negative or undesirable message (i.e. “end the Bank.”)

-3

Contains a desirable visual .5 Contains an undesirable visual -.5Appears in Tier 1 Media 1.5

Total10

-10

Metric Weighting

Participation in Training ?

Volunteers for Community Activity ?

Attends Company Events ?

Positive Comments on Blog ?

Videos watched > 50% ?

Total 10

Communications Goal MetricAcme is perceived as the employer of choice in the industryEmployees move from “not happy” to brand ambassador

% increase in Acme’s ranking on “Employer of Choice” list% increase in employees who are willing to act as brand ambassadors. % increase in employee engagement score

Improve Acme’s reputationEnhancing Acme’s reputation by getting customers and employees to advocate on Acme’s behalf

% increase in share of desirable social and traditional media conversations. % increase in customer engagement in social and digital media % increase in employee advocacy % increase in awareness of Acme’s positive impact on Romanian society

Mitigate or avoid image crises. We receive increased positive comments from customers and public Increase recognition for Acme’s impact on Romanian society All crises are handled with minimum publicity

% reduction in share of negative or undesirable voice in traditional and social media % increase in positive customer comments% decrease in average length of media crisis visibility

Increased awareness of and preference for Acme’s private-label products

% increase in recommendations for Acme’s private-label products % increase in desirable conversation in social media about Acme’s private-label products % increase in customer awareness and preference for Acme’s private-label products

Business Goals Communications Goal Metric Required toolLower employee turnover and increase employee retention

Acme is perceived as the employer of choice in the industryEmployees move from “not happy” to brand ambassador

% increase in Acme’s ranking on “Employer of Choice” list% increase in employees who are willing to act as brand ambassadors. % increase in employee engagement score

Best Employer data from independent surveyAnalysis of Glass Door data Employee survey

Growing market share

Improve Acme’s reputationEnhancing Acme’s reputation by getting customers and employees to advocate on Acme’s behalf

% increase in share of desirable social and traditional media conversations. % increase in reputation score % increase in customer engagement in social and digital media % increase in employee advocacy % increase in awareness of Acme’s positive impact on Romanian society

Reputational Survey researchMedia monitoring and content analysis of traditional and social media.Digital and social analytics

Risk and cost avoidance

Mitigate or avoid image crises. We receive increased positive comments from customers and public Increase recognition for Acme’s impact on Romanian society All crises are handled with minimum publicity

% reduction in share of negative or undesirable voice in traditional and social media % increase in positive customer comments% decrease in average length of media crisis visibility

Media monitoring and content analysis of traditional and social media.

Increase sales of Acme’s private-label products

Increased awareness of and preference for Acme’s private-label products

% increase in recommendations for Acme’s private-label products % increase in desirable conversation in social media about Acme’s private-label products % increase in customer awareness and preference for Acme’s private-label products

Customer Survey researchMedia content analysis of traditional and social media.

Metric Required tool% increase in Acme’s ranking on “Employer of Choice” list% increase in employees who are willing to act as brand ambassadors. % increase in employee engagement score

Best Employer data from independent surveyAnalysis of Glass Door data Employee survey

% increase in share of desirable social and traditional media conversations. % increase in reputation score % increase in customer engagement in social and digital media % increase in employee advocacy % increase in awareness of Acme’s positive impact on Romanian society

Reputational Survey researchMedia monitoring and content analysis of traditional and social media.Digital and social analytics

% reduction in share of negative or undesirable voice in traditional and social media % increase in positive customer comments% decrease in average length of media crisis visibility

Media monitoring and content analysis of traditional and social media.

% increase in recommendations for Acme’s private-label products % increase in desirable conversation in social media about Acme’s private-label products % increase in customer awareness and preference for Acme’s private-label products

Customer Survey researchMedia content analysis of traditional and social media.

➢Data is driven by goals ➢What outcomes is your

program expected to achieve?

➢Is it sufficient data? ➢Is it accurate? ➢Is it relevant?

13,200 corporate decision- makers and entrep. (2% of 660,000 - actual US figure is 11%)

220 million media impressions

22 million positive impressions (10%

positive impressions)

660,000 non-primary visits(3% of 22 million)

$33 million in potential tourismrevenue

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Tourism data

Media data

132 new businesseswith avg. 20 emp. per business = 2,640 employees @ $10,000 subsidy/business development value per emp.= $26,400,000

Economic Development

Data

Economic data

0.28

0.399

0.405

0 0.2 0.4 0.6

Number of clips

Number ofPositive Articles

MQI Score

Pearson r value

Row Labels Average Quality ScoreHealth Care 8.00Recovery 5.79Monetary Policy 5.24Economic Growth 4.87Interest Rates 4.84Quantitative easing 4.63Employment 4.57Cyber Attacks 4.50Inflation 4.46Unemployment 3.54Financial Market 2.67Banking Supervision 2.00

9.308.68

8.108.00

7.677.50

7.367.31

7.156.71

6.546.36

5.735.26

Free EntertainmentLady Antebellum Concert

Sand Sculpting World CupChallenge Triathlon

Boardwalk Hall Light ShowHello Summer

Sand BlastMiss'd America Pageant

Blake SheltonAir Show

July 4th FireworksDO AC

Meet ACMiss America

Top Programs By Optimal Content Score (OCS)

Market News InternationalJacksonville Business Journal Online

American BankerAtlanta Business Chronicle

ForbesMiami Herald

Jacksonville Business JournalNew York Times

Fox Business NetworkTimes-Picayune Online

USA TodayUS News & World Report

Wall Street Journal OnlineForbes Online

Wall Street JournalUSA Today Online

CNNMoney.comAtlanta Journal-Constitution

Bloomberg Radio NetworkAtlanta Business Chronicle Online

EconomistFox Business Online

Bloomberg NewsReuters

TheStreetMSN Money (US)

MarketWatchBloomberg Television

New York Times OnlineCalculated Risk

CNBCWashington Post Online

MoneyBeatTwitter

Business InsiderCNBC Online

Reuters OnlineNASDAQ

Yahoo! FinanceSeeking Alpha

Incorrect or Undesirable message No Message

Calculated Risk 2.42Atlanta Journal-Constitution 2.40Fox Organizational Network 2.25Nightly Organizational Report Online 2.10WFLA-AM (Fox News Radio) 2.00DealBook 1.63New Orleans City Organizational Online 1.00Forbes 1.00New Orleans City Organizational 1.00Miami Herald 1.00Facebook 1.00CNN Online 1.00Jacksonville Organizational Journal 1.00Reuters 0.91MarketWatch 0.90Economist 0.88FiveThirtyEight 0.75CNBC World 0.50Times-Picayune 0.50Tennessean Online 0.50

Quality Score

Outlets that Don't Include Key Messages Outlets with the Lowest Quality Score

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